"Abusive authority disables bodies. A husband who never lays an aggressive finger on his wife may still silence her with mockery and bullying threats. Children are blinded to reality by the manipulations of a sexual predator. Harsh teachers do not open ears to instruction, but deafen. Even when they do not cut out tongues, tyrants prevent tongues from doing what tongues are created to do—to speak truth. Propaganda sows confusion and leaves many of the propagandized “brain-damaged.” Ultimately, abusers deprive victims of the full use of their faculties."